The Family Plot
“She was awake at dawn, goddammit all, and she knew if she tried to wring out another hour, she’d only be more miserable for the effort.
She dragged herself out of the bag and carried her stuff upstairs. She needed to pee again, and brush her teeth, and she didn’t want to get dressed with the boys slumbering right beside her. Bobby and Gabe didn’t matter so much—hell, she’d been forced to take baths with Bobby until she was old enough to remember it. But Brad didn’t get a free show.
She set her overnight bag down in the bathroom, and leaned her head around the corner to take a look inside the master bedroom. Apparently a tree branch had broken the bay window sometime during the night. The window seat was soaked, and there was a dark patch of wet wood for a yard or two around it. Everything else looked okay: The wardrobes, the bed frame, and the fixtures remained unmolested by water, and stray ghosts.
A fine, spitting spray still flicked inside through the missing windowpane, but last n...ight’s deluge was over for now.MoreLess
She dragged herself out of the bag and carried her stuff upstairs. She needed to pee again, and brush her teeth, and she didn’t want to get dressed with the boys slumbering right beside her. Bobby and Gabe didn’t matter so much—hell, she’d been forced to take baths with Bobby until she was old enough to remember it. But Brad didn’t get a free show.
She set her overnight bag down in the bathroom, and leaned her head around the corner to take a look inside the master bedroom. Apparently a tree branch had broken the bay window sometime during the night. The window seat was soaked, and there was a dark patch of wet wood for a yard or two around it. Everything else looked okay: The wardrobes, the bed frame, and the fixtures remained unmolested by water, and stray ghosts.
A fine, spitting spray still flicked inside through the missing windowpane, but last n...ight’s deluge was over for now.MoreLess
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